Communists are a genuine movement held back by a series of entrenched, conspiratorial cliques and cults which took over during the crisis of the 80s and 90s. Said cliques and cults use access to middle-class resources, NGO money, and orgs themselves to exploit membership.

God its happening so fast now

I have sat in a voice call for 30 minutes with a polyglot.. We have used MSpaint to break it down, PHRASE by PHRASE. No matter how you parse this sentence, YOU CANNOT MAKE IT MAKE SENSE. Genuine linguistic marvel.

nothing bigger than the difference between people who ACT like they go to the gym and people who ACTUALLY go to the gym

people trying to shit on disco elysium by comparing it's 'vibe' to a podcast is extremely funny, because it has so much more in common with it's actually cited influences (strugatsky brothers, Emile Zola, China Mieville, etc) that if you even look at the art book you can see this

you guys have to get over your hatred of service industry workers. my job in no way contradicts the historical fact that i said. you’re just mad that im the one saying it and that is not a legitimate critique.

If I run out of good contemporary literature, I go back further into the past. Then I read the bad stuff. Then I learn another language. Then I go do something else.

So much of modern parenting assumes that children should not be exposed to anything, ever. No impermanent relationships, no unorthodox expression, no new languages, no big ideas, not even something a little scary.

Am I weird or is this sentence completely failing to parse as coherent

Ah, so close. In reality, stable (albeit poor) workers tend to be the most consistently easy to organize. The issue is that middle class 'organizers' take over, turn it into an excercise in 'party building', and try to enforce rigid ideological orthodoxy.

I think what makes Marx that much more impressive than even the French post-structuralists is his accomplishment of blowing meta-narratives out of the water before then building a new, cohesive and factually verifiable counter-narrative out of therefore reactionary philosophy.

I was in a public history class with a member of the Republican party who would, in the same breath, advocate for the Lost Cause and invite black classmates out for drinks.

Y'know, I tried to 'listen to' minorities. I then found that they were just as short-sighted, violent, greedy, isolated, and sad as the average straight white able bodied man.

This is an AI photo, & probably the most widespread one ever to exist. It's not real, & appeared on X hours before the US released photos of Maduro in custody. Nobody seems to notice that. It's truthfully worrying how easy it's already become to pass these things off as real.

'nuance' and it's the most superficial, most ahistorical, most orthodox 'analysis' that doesn't disturb or challenge anything and yet performs some kind of criticality. and more importantly: empire is safe congrats

Gil Scott-Heron shows off his side of the city [1982]

lots of campists, being entry level marxists or worse, marxists stuck at entry level, irrationally believe themselves to be free of ideology (“Deprogrammed”) so their mission becomes attacking anyone who refuses to buy into their ideological phantasms.

The entire approach is counter to feminist theory up to this point, which is that people exist within systems wherein they have agency to change, to act against oppression, to constitute identities and cultures and systems against hegemonic power.

If a man comes to you with the realization that he lives in a system of constant violence, it is childish to treat him as implicated in a system he could damn well be opposed to.

Self-styled 'dialectical materialists' absolutely adore two-value logic.

“Listen to voices” era of social justice is over you either want to suck off this country some more or not. Those are the sides you can choose